Training 20131128 | Adrian Birks | Christians & Politics
Adrian shares his paper "Christians & Politics" which he wrote for Newfrontiers which looks at how Christians should engage wisely in politics:
"All too easily Christians are silenced by a vocal minority suggesting that faith and politics should not mix. We even find some religious leaders promoting this viewpoint: Commenting in 2005, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks wrote in The Times “Religion becomes political at its peril, and ours.” Similarly, Pope John Paul II “untiringly [stated] that Priests should steer clear of politics”. How can this be right? If we are, as God commanded Israel, to “loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke [and] to let the oppressed go free “(Isa 58:6f), and if we are to be the “salt of the earth... [and] the light of the world... ”(Mt 5:13-14), then surely we are obliged to lobby the authorities and to advocate justice and righteousness in government policy."
